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From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
Subject: Re: IDENTIFIERS in Upper Case
Date: 1997/03/29
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In article <dewar.859560724@merv>, Robert Dewar <dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
>I think the reason that the situation is a mess in Ada is that the
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>original reference manual recommended the all upper case identifier
>style, and right from the word start, the community fragmented into
>the purists who insisted on following this recommendation (perhaps
>including some who objectively felt it was better), and a large
>group of people who could not stand all upper case.

That sounds like a correct assessment to me.  But I wouldn't call it
such a "mess".  We seem to be pretty much converging on the Mixed_Case
convention.  Almost all new code I see is written in that style, and
probably more than half of all old code I've seen.  It's not universal,
but getting there.

- Bob